Idle Connection Resiliency
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
2018-06-18
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TDS Remoting: A Better Way to Create Linked Servers for ODBC Sources
TDS remoting services provide a native SQL experience with local and remote ODBC data sources (contrast with limitations of using OLE DB).
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Getting Data between Excel and SQL Server using ODBC
With ODBC, you can summarise, and select just the data you need, in an Excel workbook before importing it into SQL Server. You can join data from different areas or worksheets. You can even get data from the result of a SQL Server SELECT statement into an Excel spreadsheet. Phil Factor shows how, and warns of some of the pitfalls.
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4,816 reads
Multiplatform ODBC support for SQLServer
The Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity team has a survey on the need for ODBC support for other platforms. If you use SQL Server from other platforms, let them know.
2010-03-04 (first published: 2010-02-25)
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